Coordinate: CBS Moderator Meets With Dems Before Debate - Unheard Of!!!
Nov 13, 2015 13:41:22 #
This meeting is intended to preempt any damage control over anything said during the debate.
This Saturdays second Democratic debate will be a much smaller affair than the first. With only three candidates on stage, CBS News plans to delve deep into the issues with each candidate and have taken advantage of the smaller pool by doing some intense research.
Moderator John Dickerson and his team met with each of three campaigns for over an hour to discuss the major issues at play in the race, sources on the campaigns said, describing the pre-interview as "informational in nature."
Prior to the CNN debate, the campaigns said moderator Anderson Cooper did not reach out directly to them before the candidates took the stage.
[Dickerson] and his team were very interested in getting to better know the senator's stand on a wide spectrum of issues, what he would do about income ine******y in this country," said Sanders spokesman Michael Briggs. He said they discussed issues where there are real differences between the candidates -- including gun control, the death penalty and raising taxes on the middle class. "John Dickerson's a smart, impressive guy who cares a lot about the issues," Briggs said. "I'm sure we'll see a smart, issues oriented debate."
A CBS News official said that Dickersons outreach to the campaigns was the same type of research he conducts for his weekly show Face the Nation. The official said Dickerson talked to three dozen people and organizations beyond the campaigns to immerse himself in the issues.
Alongside Dickerson will be CBS News correspondent Nancy Cordes; Kevin Cooney, anchor for KCCI-TV, the local CBS affiliate; and Des Moines Register political columnist Kathie Obradovich.
Our goal is to ask the candidates questions that help to illuminate for primary v**ers their differences on key issues the way they would work to make life better for average Americans. So were going to be focusing, as weve always planned, on the issues that people care about, Cordes said.
Cordes said the extra time will give the moderators opportunities for extended sections on one single topic.
The beauty of having just three candidates is that you can spend more time on each issue and with each candidate, Cordes said. " You dont feel like you need to jump from topic to topic so quickly that you never get to explore what it is that the candidate would do and how they deal with perhaps some of the drawback of the plans they have proposed. We can go beyond the 35 or 45 second talking point you hear in their stump speech all the time.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2015/11/debate-moderatorsprep-215832#ixzz3rOkpePyo
This Saturdays second Democratic debate will be a much smaller affair than the first. With only three candidates on stage, CBS News plans to delve deep into the issues with each candidate and have taken advantage of the smaller pool by doing some intense research.
Moderator John Dickerson and his team met with each of three campaigns for over an hour to discuss the major issues at play in the race, sources on the campaigns said, describing the pre-interview as "informational in nature."
Prior to the CNN debate, the campaigns said moderator Anderson Cooper did not reach out directly to them before the candidates took the stage.
[Dickerson] and his team were very interested in getting to better know the senator's stand on a wide spectrum of issues, what he would do about income ine******y in this country," said Sanders spokesman Michael Briggs. He said they discussed issues where there are real differences between the candidates -- including gun control, the death penalty and raising taxes on the middle class. "John Dickerson's a smart, impressive guy who cares a lot about the issues," Briggs said. "I'm sure we'll see a smart, issues oriented debate."
A CBS News official said that Dickersons outreach to the campaigns was the same type of research he conducts for his weekly show Face the Nation. The official said Dickerson talked to three dozen people and organizations beyond the campaigns to immerse himself in the issues.
Alongside Dickerson will be CBS News correspondent Nancy Cordes; Kevin Cooney, anchor for KCCI-TV, the local CBS affiliate; and Des Moines Register political columnist Kathie Obradovich.
Our goal is to ask the candidates questions that help to illuminate for primary v**ers their differences on key issues the way they would work to make life better for average Americans. So were going to be focusing, as weve always planned, on the issues that people care about, Cordes said.
Cordes said the extra time will give the moderators opportunities for extended sections on one single topic.
The beauty of having just three candidates is that you can spend more time on each issue and with each candidate, Cordes said. " You dont feel like you need to jump from topic to topic so quickly that you never get to explore what it is that the candidate would do and how they deal with perhaps some of the drawback of the plans they have proposed. We can go beyond the 35 or 45 second talking point you hear in their stump speech all the time.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2015/11/debate-moderatorsprep-215832#ixzz3rOkpePyo
Nov 13, 2015 15:16:26 #
More likely, the candidates were given a list of questions so that they could rehearse their replies. The whole thing is staged.
Nov 14, 2015 20:47:31 #
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